[trean362]

the BMW saw the bike coming and moved further to his left, the wrong way! I think the bike was a Yamaha R1 if I'm not mistaken, a beautiful bike before it crashed.

[King Herald]

Originally Posted by ride ↗

If the motorcyclist had momentarily moved into the right portion of their lane and clicked on their high beam three seconds before the crash, the BMW driver may have had a better chance of seeing the motorcycle coming towards him. Changing lane position changes line-of-sight, thus offering a motorist more time and distance to see the motorcycle. Additionally, a bright light attracts more attention than a dimmer one. BMW sees motorcycle, aborts the pass on the sedan. Its all about conspicuity.
One thing I noticed when replaying the vid is the motorcyclist, seeing the car in his lane, starts a move toward his right and into the cars' path-of-travel. This is a common error, as the motorcyclist target-fixates on the one thing they're trying to avoid, which in most cases is the wrong thing to do. The car was braking and moving to the shoulder of the road as a collision avoidance maneuver, and the motorcyclist, sensing imminent doom, ensured a collision by moving further right. Most of the time a motorcyclist does not execute a skill properly, or worse, does nothing to avoid a crash. In this incidence, he actually may have done more harm than good by improperly executing his avoidance maneuver.
Does this obsolve the car driver of liability? Absolutely not. The BMW violated the motorcyclist's path-of-travel and failed to yield right-of-way to the motorcyclist. I'm just saying the motorcyclist had more of a say in the outcome of this tragic incident than first noted.

Russians know exactly how they all drive, so the guy on the bike should have been super aware the sort of stunts car drivers pull.
When I lived in the far east it was the same there, might is right, the bigger the vehicle the more right of way they felt they had.
We motorcycle riders would get pushed off the road by cars and trucks doing exactly what this prick in the BMW did. I had to roll off into the dirt verge more than a few times when some asshole overtook coming right at me, like this BM did.